Health

Babies can get seriously ill with flu. But flu vaccines aren’t licensed for babies under six months, so what should a mom do?

Here's some information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

At the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Katherine O’Brien evaluated Navajo and White Mountain Apache mothers who were vaccinated while pregnant, and the vaccine’s impact on their babies.

O’Brien says babies of vaccinated mothers were less likely to be infected or hospitalized – protection was passed in the womb:

Forty years ago, about 50 percent of kids walked or biked to school. But now that number has fallen to less than 15 percent of kids walking or biking to school, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That's one of the reasons kids are getting too big, experts think.

Between 15 and 30 percent of American kids are obese. Walking one mile to and from school gives kids much of the minimum physical activity they need -- and they can talk with their friends.

A study indicates being stressed may reduce the chances of becoming pregnant.

Researchers in the United States and England measured women’s levels of a body chemical in saliva that is considered a barometer of stress – alpha-amylase.

They followed the women for six months. And they say women with higher levels were less likely than women with lower levels to get pregnant each day during the fertile window. The study is in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

The Junior League of Lubbock is partnering with United Supermarkets to hold a Pop Tart drive to help hungry kids get enough to eat.

The drive will support League’s Food2Kids program, which was created in 2006 and sends shelf-stable food and snacks home on Fridays with LISD students who might otherwise not be able to eat on the weekends.

There is plenty of research to show how hungry kids struggle to keep up in school.